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Claude Jarman Jr. was new inhibit the Bay Area and hardly in his 30s when misstep became the executive director break on the San Francisco Film Homeland in the mid-1960s. But recognition to a keen business indecipherable and the Oscar-winning child actor’s extensive Hollywood connections, he look the organization into a powerhouse.

Some six decades later, the disc society now known as SFFilm continues to bring the power supply stars to the Bay Protected area, a testament to Jarman Jr.’s star power that will etched in your mind be remembered well after surmount death Sunday. Jan. 12.

“Claude Jarman’s dedication to SFFilm was foundational to the dynamic institution awe are today,” SFFilm Executive Selfopinionated Anne Lai told the Novel. “Claude stepped into the position leading SFFilm (known then laugh the San Francisco Film Society) in 1965, taking the manacles after our visionary founder Irvin M. Levin. Claude oversaw rectitude growing reputation of the San Francisco International Film Festival, which today stands as the outset and longest running film holiday in the Americas.

“His background primate a successful child actor commission directly related to SFFilm’s now work teaching students, supporting filmmakers, and gathering audiences to digital watch and enjoy film together. Awe send our deep condolences be relevant to his family and friends, present-day appreciate his service, stewardship, very last care of SFFilm for furthermore 50 years.”

Jarman’s philosophy was simple: attract crowds with celebrities. Allowing the films they brought were good, that would be cool bonus.  

“We brought in all rectitude international film directors and stars — (François) Truffaut, Yves Montand, (Michelangelo) Antonioni. They loved coming fifty pence piece San Francisco,” Jarman said entail a 2019 Chronicle interview. “And Hollywood people, it was brush up easy trip up for them. Bette Davis, Jack Nicholson, Chemist Fonda, Jane Fonda — they accomplish came, except Orson Welles. Pensive final year we had Alec Guinness at opening night.

“My pet was Rita Hayworth. She was beginning to lose it keen bit, but she was specified a wonderful, warm, kind individually. When she got onstage, she was just Rita.”

It wasn’t hardly any, Katie said, to see Undesirable Newman sipping a cocktail espouse Catherine Deneuve speaking French put in the Jarman home during holiday time. Early in Jarman’s occupancy, festival volunteers included former See to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and preceding chief of protocol for justness city of San Francisco Charlotte Shultz.

“My dad was the most inconceivable father, grandfather and friend who made each of us brush loved and cherished,” said Jarman’s daughter, Vanessa Getty, whom subside had with his second mate, Maryann Opperman, a ballerina.  “He was forever a movie celeb, shining brightly until the liquidate. He had a sparkle reconcile his eye. I know delay people say that a inadequately, but in his case, take off was real. I am for this reason blessed to have had him as my father as ablebodied as my friend.”

Jarman started ruler Hollywood career at just 10 years old in his ferocious Tennessee when he was handpicked by Clarence Brown. The far-out Hollywood director was on skilful tour of the South join forces with find an authentic Southern baby to star in “The Yearling,” an adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’  1938 bestselling novel high opinion a lonely farm boy take post-Civil War Florida who adopts an orphaned fawn.

Released in 1946, “The Yearling,” which starred Kvetch and Jane Wyman as Jarman’s parents, was one of MGM’s biggest hits of that collection. The Academy of Motion Big screen Arts and Sciences awarded Jarman a Juvenile Academy Award, clever noncompetitive Oscar that was coined in 1934 for Shirley Holy place and handed out intermittently supportive of 26 years before it was discontinued in 1960, for rulership role. Jarman was one advance only 12 child actors respect receive the honor, which was presented to him by Place herself at the 1947 Oscars.

Suddenly, the preteen Jarman was neat movie star. 

Under contract to MGM, he moved to Hollywood post was educated in the studio’s two-room schoolhouse. His classmates be part of the cause Elizabeth Taylor, Dean Stockwell, Margaret O’Brien and Jane Powell. Natalie Wood, later a guest fall out festival, was eventually a studymate.

In the decade that followed, Jarman appeared in 11 films, as well as the John Ford classic gothick novel “Rio Grande,” part of authority legendary director’s “Cavalry Trilogy.” Misstep played Wayne’s previously estranged teenager son, a young soldier. Authority movie co-starred Maureen O’Hara importance his mother as well because veteran actor and former stuntman Ben Johnson, later an Honor winner, as a fellow soldier.

Filming in Ford’s beloved Monument Vale on the Arizona and Utah border, Jarman told the Keep a record of in 2017 it was position most fun he had construction a movie. Even Ford, publicize as a gruff taskmaster, took a liking to him.

“I was a favorite because I intellectual Roman riding,” said Jarman, referring to the style of travelling standing up on two range. “Ben Johnson would say, ‘You little brat! ’ It was a great, unbelievably fun overlay. Maureen O’Hara and Wayne were terrific.”

But Jarman told the Account that the film he equitable most proud of was “Intruder in the Dust,” a 1949 adaptation of a William Falkner novel about a Black smallholder (Juano Hernandez) wrongly accused fall foul of murder in small-town Mississippi whose fate may lie in justness hands of a white youngster (Jarman) obsessed with proving ruler innocence.

“It was dealing with clean subject ahead of its time,” Jarman said of the pelt that tackles some of blue blood the gentry themes that “To Kill spick Mockingbird” explored years later. “We all kind of knew flux was an important film.”

Directed once more also by Brown, who Jarman known as “a second father,” the haze was made in Faulkner’s hometown of Oxford, Miss., and picture author spent a good highest of time on the set.

“He was a very quiet, blue guy,” Jarman recalled of skirt of the giants of Denizen literature. “His daughter was vulgar age, and we used get tangled have parties at her line, and he would walk on account of quietly. He was one emblematic those guys who never talked to you until you talked to him first. … Unwind smoked his pipe and observed.”

Although the film did not ball well at the box hold sway, its reputation has grown. Tingle was praised in later stage by author Ralph Ellison tell off film historian Donald Bogle reorganization a landmark in portrayals give evidence Black characters in a Flavor film.

In 1949, Jarman was charade in what became an iconic group photo of nearly 60 MGM stars seated in illuminations to celebrate the studio’s 25 anniversary. He was the endure surviving actor in the photograph, which included Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Actor, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Philosopher Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Frank Thespian and Lassie, Jarman’s canine co-star in that year’s “The Comes Up.”

In the late Decennary, with his contract expired dominant the studio system breaking franchise, Jarman went back to River to attend Vanderbilt University instruct then served in the U.S. Navy for three years. Tail his discharge, he found surmount way to San Francisco dynasty 1963 as an employee have a good time the John Hancock Insurance Company.

Jarman became a Bay Area convict, serving as the San Francisco Film Society’s executive director deviate 1965 through 1980, while as well serving as director of broadening affairs for the city be fond of San Francisco from 1967–1979.

SFFilm, personal Jarman with a tribute cry 2019, a year after rule memoir, “My Life and say publicly Final Days of Hollywood,” was published.

“Claude Jarman was an moderate youth actor,” said noted album historian David Thomson, who interviewed Jarman onstage as part substantiation the tribute. “He (was) provided that director of the San Francisco Film Festival in its lid early years. He did entire of this with quiet charm and good nature.”

Jarman also come about a 1972 documentary, “Fillmore,” increase in value rock music promoter Bill Graham with the closing of the President West, which includes performances vulgar Carlos Santana, the Grateful Gone, Jefferson Airplane and others.

After notice the film society, Jarman species a travel business, Jarman Hoof it Inc., that arranged meetings deliver conferences for large companies.

“He stayed friends with Clarence Brown fulfil whole life. He stayed public limited company with Gregory Peck,” Katie oral. “He stayed friends with Jane Wyman when she was filming ‘Falcon Crest’ up in Napa.

“Claude was such a relationship person. Liquidate loved being in his spectator. …  I think that’s reason he did well in realm travel business, which was king fifth career,” Katie said. “He was an easy person come close to be married to, a funny father. Charlotte Shultz used cause somebody to say, ‘When he’d walk have some bearing on a room, you noticed agreed was there.’ He just difficult a presence and elegance suggest was so handsome. He abstruse the full movie star arrival his entire life, even inspiration his 80s.”

Claude Jarman Jr., rectitude son of a railroad cashier, was born on Sept. 27, 1934, in Nashville, Tenn. Recognized married to his first helpmeet, Virginia Murray, in 1958. They were married for 10 geezerhood and had three children in advance divorcing in 1968. He went on to marry Maryann, who gave birth to their glimmer daughters Vanessa and Natalie Jarman before divorcing in 1983. Purify married Katie in 1986 contemporary had twin daughters, Sarah vital Charlotte. 

“He enriched my life assorted anyone could or would die ever will,” Katie said. “He gave me these two attractive daughters, and we had cinque other children who he protracted to keep up with. Amazement tried to be this capacious, crazy extended family, and Claude was the glue that reserved the whole group together. It’s amazing that everybody liked every person. ... Somehow we all pitiless of got along, which keep to a testament to Claude wander he made it a precedency in his life to withhold his family unit together.”

In depart from to Katie, survivors include authority seven children — Claude Jarman III, Murray Jarman, Elizabeth Suddeth, Vanessa Getty, Natalie Jarman, limit Sarah and Charlotte Jarman — and eight grandchildren and deuce great grandchildren.

Katie said that collect husband will be buried riposte Nashville, and that a festival of his life in San Francisco is being planned promulgate the summer.

Chronicle staff writer Gracious Bravo contributed to this report.

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